Snack time can present some interesting challenges when you live in an interspecies flock. For instance, one flock member mightContinue reading “Day 183: Box Turtle Gets the Mealworm Munchies”
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Day 156: Box Turtle Mind Meld
When you are a very cute rescued box turtle and you know you have your rescue mommy wrapped tightly aroundContinue reading “Day 156: Box Turtle Mind Meld”
Day 120: Box Turtle Brunch
Brunch traditions can look quite different depending on your species orientation. For example, let’s say you are a large featherlessContinue reading “Day 120: Box Turtle Brunch”
Day 108: Scoping Salmon
As a shelled being with a keen gustatory appreciation, it is important to strike just the right ambience before youContinue reading “Day 108: Scoping Salmon”
Day 102: Hunting the Wild Earthworm
After a long day of climbing, swimming, basking, digging and burrowing, a box turtle can work up quite an appetite!Continue reading “Day 102: Hunting the Wild Earthworm”
Day 75: Marvelous Meaty Mealworms
Dinnertime in an interspecies flock can sure get interesting. There is your small loud feathery brother, who seems intent onContinue reading “Day 75: Marvelous Meaty Mealworms”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Feeding
Bruce is a surprisingly picky eater! This has caused his mommy many, many stressful days and nights, worrying that heContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Feeding”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Protein
Figuring out what to feed a newly rescued box turtle is not a job for the faint of heart (orContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Protein”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Earthworms
Sometimes I feel like I literally couldn’t have chosen two more opposite shelled beings to welcome into our little flock.Continue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Earthworms”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Edible Grasses
From time to time, I work with an animal communicator just to check in with each one of my interspeciesContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Edible Grasses”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hand Feeding
Sometimes it feels like the only thing Bruce and Malti really have in common is that they are both shelled.Continue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hand Feeding”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Blueberries
Both shelled members of our little flock love blueberries. Perhaps it is the shape – so round, so soft, suchContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Blueberries”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hunting
Having two shells from two different reptile species in our little family flock really brings up some interesting contrasts. TakeContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hunting”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hunting
When you keep company with turtles and tortoises, you have plenty of opportunities to make new neural connections. This, ofContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hunting”
Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hibernation (Brumation)
Not all turtles and tortoises hibernate. Among the species that do, the technical term for what happens when a reptileContinue reading “Bruce Explains Box Turtles: Hibernation (Brumation)”